Data de publicação: 28/11/2018 - 14:49
The newly appointed director of the Pasteur Institute, Department of Technology and Scientific Programs, Cristophe D’Enfert, visited Fiocruz on September 26. D’Enfert came to Brazil with two senior researchers of the French Institute to participate in the 1st Symposium on Fungal Infections Immunopathogenesis, which took place at Carlos Chagas Institute (ICC/Fiocruz Paraná), between September 27 and 29, 2019.
During their...
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Data de publicação: 05/06/2015 - 14:19
Work by the Fiocruz Global Health Center) includes contacts, support, and coordination of international projects with the units, institutes, and offices of the Vice-Presidents of Fiocruz, using the Group for International Programming (GPI) and the Technical Chamber for International Cooperation (CTCI) as tools for the formulation and orientation of policies, strategies, and linkages, working under the Center’s coordination.
The Center...
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Data de publicação: 24/06/2015 - 10:15
To publicize the Foundation’s activities in international cooperation, Cris works in partnership with the Coordination of Social Communication (CCS) of the Fiocruz Office of the President to publish the Fiocuz International News.
FIOCRUZ INTERNACIONAL NEWS
The Foundation’s various international initiatives are presented in each edition, covering the history of the Center’s activity and thus the majority of the...
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Data de publicação: 05/06/2015 - 15:24
Fiocruz currently has six units officially designated as Collaborating Centers of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization. The most recent designation (in 2014) was the Collaborating Center for Global Health and South-South Cooperation, which due to its nature is responsible for assisting the development of the other Centers.
Collaborating Center for Global Health and South-South Cooperation – work...
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Data de publicação: 05/06/2015 - 14:28
International activities that involve advising the Office of the President and the Board of Directors of FIOCRUZ are linked at two levels, both coordinated by Fiocruz Global Health Center: the first with representation of the Offices of the Vice-Presidents (GPI) and the second with participation by all of the Foundation’s technical, scientific, and administrative units (CTSI).
The International Programming Group (GPI) is dedicated to...
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Data de publicação: 04/03/2018 - 14:41
The Post-2015 Development Agenda - is an initiative of the United Nations with a contribution by Fiocruz to promote the inclusion of health, linked with the economic, social, and environmental dimensions in the context of sustainable development. The Foundation studies the impact of mega-projects, biodiversity, climate changes, and basic sanitation and their effects on health and citizenship.
South American Institute for Health...
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Data de publicação: 18/04/2019 - 15:21
Fiocruz was one of the Brazilian institutions represented at the 2nd High Level Conference of the United Nations on South-South Cooperation (PABA+40), which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between March 20 and 22, promoted by the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).
The event marked the 40-year anniversary of the UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, also hosted in Buenos Aires, in 1978,...
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Data de publicação: 01/04/2019 - 15:06
The opening of the academic year of Fiocruz included a conference by the UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Natalia Kanem. With the theme "Global Challenges and Opportunities for the Advancement of the ICPD and 2030 Agendas: Ensuring Rights and Choices for Women and Youths," the conference filled the auditorium of the Museum of Life at the Foundation's Manguinhos campus...
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Data de publicação: 15/02/2019 - 11:28
Despite being about half the population, women are still a minority in science. They are only 30% of the world's scientists and have received only 3% of Nobel Prize nominations in the scientific fields. In Brazil, only 14% of the members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences are women. Considering this, the United Nations have established, in 2015, February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, in line with the...
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Data de publicação: 21/06/2019 - 13:05
Between May 14 and 15, the UN headquarters in New York hosted the UN's Science, Technology and Innovation Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum). Fiocruz was represented by the coordinator of the Fiocruz Strategy for 2030 Agenda (EFA 2030), Paulo Gadelha, and his team. The Forum is part of the mandate of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM), in which Gadelha is a member of the Group of Ten.
The event brought...
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Data de publicação: 18/06/2019 - 15:48
Scientific editor of the journal History, Science, Health – Manguinhos (História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos), historian Marcos Cueto was elected a corresponding member of the International Academy of History of Sciences, which is headquartered at Unesco in Paris. Cueto is also a researcher at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC / Fiocruz) and professor of the Postgraduate Program in History of Science and Health (...
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Data de publicação: 24/06/2019 - 11:31
The Ambassador of Australia to Brazil, Timothy Kane, and the Consul General of Australia, Greg Wallis, visited Fiocruz on May 8 to learn more about the work of the Institution. They met with Vice President of Education, Information and Communication, Cristiani Machado, representing the Presidency of the Foundation, with the Assistant for Institutional Relations, Valber Frutuoso, and representatives of the Center for International Relations in...
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Data de publicação: 02/05/2019 - 14:28
Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) have been to Fiocruz for the Brazil-China seminar on Bioinformatics, BigData and Precision Medicine. The event took place in the Auditorium of the Museum of Life, at Manguinhos campus of Fiocruz, on April 17. The activity was promoted by the Bioinformatics Center of the National Laboratory of Scientific Computation (LNCC), in partnership with Fiocruz, the National Institute for Cancer (Inca...
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Data de publicação: 11/06/2019 - 14:25
The conference "ASCI and DIE/MGG International Conference: Training and Dialogue for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda” was held between April 23 and 26 in India, in the city of Hyderabad, with the goal of continue the peer exchange between public sector workers of developing countries for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda. Representatives of public schools from Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Indonesia participated...
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Data de publicação: 12/06/2019 - 10:56
The Network of Clinical and Applied Research into Chikungunya (Replick), an initiative resulting from the partnership between the Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute (INI/Fiocruz), the Ministry of Health and the Pan-American Health Organization (Opas/OMS), was launched on May 10, during the Symposium; Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical Research into Chikungunya: Producing Evidence for Public Health. Replick involves...
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Data de publicação: 02/05/2019 - 15:13
Recognition of the right of all people to enjoy the highest possible standards of health without distinction as to race, religion, political affiliation and socio-economic status is one of the premises of the World Health Organization (WHO) constitution. Investigating how the organization pursued this mission, since it was formed in 1948, is proposed in the book The World Health Organization - A History, written by the researcher from Casa de...
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Data de publicação: 02/05/2019 - 15:48
In order to expand its internationalization process, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC / Fiocruz) presents the English version of its website. At the web address, it is possible to have access to news and the main services offered by COC, in the areas of research, education, heritage, information and communication and dissemination of science.
Also available are the contacts of Researchers and Managers of the unit, as well as information about...
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Data de publicação: 11/06/2019 - 15:59
The president of the National Public Health Institute of Guinea-Bissau (Inasa -Instituto Nacional de Saúde Pública de Guiné-Bissau), Dionísio Cumba, was at Fiocruz on May 3 to discuss new forms of cooperation with the Foundation. The institute already possesses a bilateral Cooperation Agreement with Fiocruz, executed in 2015, which must be expanded.
From left to right: technical advisor of the...
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Data de publicação: 10/06/2019 - 16:14
From May 7 to 8, the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, took part in a workshop in Rwanda on priority setting for research and innovation in health. Organized by the Wellcome Trust, with the collaboration of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Indian Council of Medical Research, the University of Global Health Equity and Fiocruz, the event is part of the WHO Global Action Plan to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for...
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Data de publicação: 12/04/2019 - 14:07
A research by Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz) in Brazil and the Pasteur Institute in France has assessed the possibility of establishment of the wild cycle of chikungunya in Brazil, which may make it harder to control the virus and impossible to erradicate it in the territory. The disease is currently found in urban centers in the country and Aedes aegypti is its main vector. Published in the science magazine Plos Neglected Tropical...
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Data de publicação: 29/03/2019 - 15:15
Yes, the internet is a public health issue. And thinking about it, the researcher from the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz) and general coordinator of the Internet, Health and Society Laboratory (Laiss), André Pereira Neto, discusses this subject in a book called The Internet and Health in Brazil: Challenges and Trends, recently launched in the United States, in partnership with editor-in-chief Matthew B....
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Data de publicação: 01/04/2019 - 14:02
Concern over the situation of some 900 million people living without clean water has led the United Nations to declare, in July 2010, that access to water and sanitary sewage is an essential human right. At the time, a resolution supported by 122 countries, including Brazil, included a series of important conditions to fulfil this right, emphasizing that it was necessary to go beyond infrastructure. This need is being confirmed by the Fiocruz...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2019 - 10:47
More than a political and economic crisis, Venezuela is facing other problems that have an impact, not only in the country, but also in the public health of neighboring countries, especially regarding vector-borne diseases.
In Brazil, an increase in imported cases of malaria from Venezuela has already been seen, rising from 1,538 (in 2014) to 3,129 (in 2017). In addition to malaria, Chagas disease, dengue, Chikungunya and Zika, among others...
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